piezoelectric nanowires

SEM images of the PZT nanotube arrays, all with outer diameters of approximately 100 nanometers. The hexagonal patterns are approximately three microns wide. Credit: Ashley Bernal and Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb. Investigators at the Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated a promising new manufacturing process to form piezoelectrically active ferroelectric nanotubes, based on lead zirconate titanate, and…